“Last Looks” – Deserves a first [MOVIE REVIEW]
Morena Baccarin as Lorena Nascimento and Charlie Hunnam as Charlie Waldo in “Last Looks.” Photo courtesy of RLJE Films. “Last Looks” is a surprisingly fun homage to hard-boiled Los Angeles-based private-eye flics. From those based on Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in “Murder My Sweet” and “The Big Sleep” made in the 40s, to “Marlowe” and the “Long Goodbye” in the 70s, all the right notes are hit. And let’s not forget Jack Nicholson’s “Chinatown.” In each of those films Los Angeles had a starring role where the main character was caught in a swiftly moving current without a life preserver. All the elements are present — reluctant hero, police corruption, rich guys above the law, a femme fatale (in this case there are two), thugs, and big money interests. “Last Looks,” directed by Tim Kirkby and written with an assured hand by Howard Michael Gould, adapting from his novel of the same name, may not reach the heights of the aforementioned classics but it comes close and is most definitely entertaining. Charlie Waldo is an ex-LAPD high-flyer who left the force in disgrace and has retired to the seclusion of a rundown trailer in the woods. He has shorn himself of all but 100 items…
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